this protection scam is a scam do you honestly think you can fool me again just because you've
successfully done it numerous times before sometimes when a restaurant is hugely popular
it becomes a target for scams here are 10 times people tried to scam Taco Bell Taco Bell's beef
Scandal crusty Burgers will be made from only reptile meat how much actual beef do you think
Taco Bell uses in their ground beef filling this was the subject of one of Taco Bell's most public
lawsuits back in 2011 when the Beasley Allen Law Firm took the chain to court claiming that their
ground beef filling didn't technically meet the necessary qualifications to be advertised
as ground beef under USDA standards this may not technically be considered a scam if only
because Beasley Allen was not seeking financial compensation but instead the lawsuit was based
mostly on the question of whether or not Taco Bell was allowed to keep referring to their filling
as beef or if the term taco meat fill feeling would be more appropriate but that being said
Beasley Allen still may have stretched the truth on some of their claims and damaged Taco Bell's
reputation a bit as a result they claimed that upon having Taco Bell's meat filling tested it
was found to contain less than 35 percent real beef and it was made with the use of extenders
which the USDA specifically States cannot be used in a product being advertised to the public as
ground beef there's been a lot of talk about our seasoned beef but here's the truth Taco Bell on
the other hand responded with an aggressive ad campaign insisting that their filling was made
with 88 beef with the rest of the recipe being filled out with water oats and other ingredients
to improve the taste the beastly Allen Law Firm ultimately decided to drop the lawsuit but only
after Taco Bell had already spent millions of dollars defending the quality of their beef
sued for two dollars and eighteen cents just put your little hand back in the cash register and
give me my two dollars and 75 cents back please most of us accept the fact that when we're eating
fast food the final price of promotional items may not always add up as advertised and yet this
came as a complete surprise for one New Jersey couple back in 2018. Nelson Estrella Rojas and
his wife Joanne watched a Taco Bell commercial advertising their chalupa Cravings boxes for only
five dollars a piece and it was this cheap price that encouraged the couple to give it a try but
when their final price came to 12.18 instead of the ten dollars they'd been expecting the
couple felt that they'd been overcharged and they decided to take Taco Bell to court for their two
dollars and 18 cents which included 81 cents in state sales tax which the couple felt that
they shouldn't have to pay because of fine print included at the end of the commercial the judge
was quick to rule that Taco Bell had been acting within their rights to charge for state sales tax
and pointed out that the location the couple had eaten at wasn't even participating in the
promotion at the time in fact their own menus had the chalupa Cravings boxes listed for 5.99 oops
didn't notice whether the couple had noticed this before placing their order or not is
hard to say but regardless the couple had been given all necessary information before placing
their order and still decided to proceed anyway Grande Theft some company stole my
yeah Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos proved a fast fan favorite when they were first introduced onto
the menu in 2012 a taco that uses Doritos for the shell this was such a simple and yet suiting
addition that it's almost shocking to think that nobody had come up with it before Taco Bell or is
it really as original as we think well according to prisoner Gary Cole who is currently serving
a 25-year sentence Doritos Locos was actually his idea and he was willing to take the chain to court
over this claim to prove this Cole pointed to a notarized document he had sent to his lawyer back
in 2006 that included a list of nine various products he had come up with including shoes
hot sauces body oils and an entire clothing line but for our purposes the most interesting item on
the list was the second one described as taco shells of all flavors made out of Doritos so
to some degree yeah it would appear that Cole may have thought up the idea first but a Taco
Bell spokesperson denied having received the recipe from some shady Source I was lying to
Amy instead they came up with the Doritos Locos the same way that they come up with all their
recipes through the efforts of their product Innovation team and considering the matter was
eventually dropped anyway we'll just assume that this was little more than a coincidence
horse meat have you ever tried horse meat the beef isn't the only meat causing a stir at Taco Bell
after testing the meat served at three separate locations in the UK in 2013 the food safety
agency found the presence of horse meat this was especially concerning as it meant the customers
didn't necessarily know what they were putting in their bodies Taco Bell seemed to be just as
shocked by the results of the tests as anyone with one spokesperson claiming that they'd had no idea
their European suppliers were tampering with their product they quickly discontinued serving
the offending beef and switched to a new supplier but the whole thing just sort of left a bad taste
in the mouths of many UK diners who may never be able to trust the chain again you know trust me I
don't trust you while this scam may have been traumatizing for Taco Bell's customers it was
almost equally as devastating to Taco Bell's reputation and in the long run their sales we
can imagine that trusting the wrong supplier is one mistake they won't be eager to make a again
scam calls yeah hang on I'll check hey guys do I got a leaky bum well it's unfortunately common for
regular people to fall victim to scam phone calls it happens to Big corporations as well in 2022
a Taco Bell manager in Oregon answered a call on the store phone from an individual who identified
himself as being from Taco Bell corporate this individual instructed the manager to take money
from the store and use it to purchase prepaid debit cards they then proceeded to keep calling
this manager on his personal cell phone although no number was ever identified on the caller ID
I don't know who you are the scammers managed to get away with almost two thousand dollars before
another manager at the same Taco Bell location was able to get a hold of the first and inform
him of what was happening it just goes to show you that no matter who claims to be on the other
end of the phone if they're asking for you to pay them in prepaid debit cards it's probably a scam
scam calls from the vice president may ask who's calling in 2017 a Taco Bell employee in Benton
Arkansas answered the phone to a woman on the other end of the line who claimed to be Pamela
Miller a vice president at Taco Bell headquarters this woman told the employee that her manager was
about to be arrested for stealing money and that she needed to take thousands of dollars out of the
company safe put it in a bank bag and give both the money and the phone over to a second employee
who would be told how to transfer the money she was also told that her every action was being
watched by hidden cameras the employee did as she was told but when the second employee failed to
return to his shift for a full hour she began to wonder if they'd been scammed and contacted the
police I'm calling the cops the police managed to catch up with this second employee before he could
transfer all of the money he had in his possession but over two thousand eight hundred dollars had
already been sent the employee had also apparently been instructed to flush any receipts for these
transactions down the toilet one would think that this may have tipped him off to the realization
that something wasn't quite right here but as it stands this story serves as a fantastic example of
how important it is to be skeptical with strangers over the phone how did that get in there oh oh
there's something in my food from human fingers and the chili at Wendy's to dead mice at Subway
people have certainly claimed to find some strange things in fast food but in 1997 one
woman attempted to sue Taco Bell claiming to have found human waste in her son's Taco apparently
the boy had eaten one taco and most of a second before he found what was described as a blob of
excrement roughly as large as a smashed Junior mint in amongst bits of food that had fallen on
the wrapper although the boy was not diagnosed with anything long-term it was alleged that he
suffered from some gastrointestinal problems and other illnesses within 48 Hours of eating
the taco food poisoning gross the alleged waste was sent to a lab for testing but it
was impossible to prove whether the specimen that was sent had actually been found in a taco or if
the whole thing was just one big hoax as Taco Bell claimed but without any evidence either
way the matter was eventually dropped although the health department did make sure to perform
a full inspection of the restaurant in question and determined it to be in excellent condition
his name is 50 Cent he's 50 cents huh in 2008 Taco Bell launched their Why Pay More value menu which
included cinnamon twists for 79 cents crunchy tacos for 89 cents and bean burritos for 99 cents
as part of their Why Pay More campaign Taco Bell sent out a joke letter to the media suggesting
that rapper 50 Cent should change his name for the sake of wrapping his order calling himself
either 79 cent 89 or 99 most people who saw this ad just sort of saw it as a harmless little joke
and laughed it off the only problem was that Taco Bell didn't ask 50 Cent for permission to
use his name in the advertisement he claims that he first learned about the campaign while watching
the news and he immediately filed a lawsuit for four million dollars in Damages against
the fast food chain it's difficult to say if this reaction was entirely warranted or not considering
Taco Bell did technically use his name in a paid advertisement but the suit was ultimately settled
confidentially in November of 2009. hot and hot water water heater converts cold water into hot
this is another case where the lawsuit placed against Taco Bell may not be so much of a scam as
it is a Justified complaint against the actions of one Taco Bell location in 2022 one Brittany
Davis and an unidentified Miner received the wrong drive-through order at a Taco Bell in Dallas Texas
and despite two attempts to fix the order via the drive-through the problem persisted and so
they decided to enter the restaurant to speak to someone directly they found the doors locked but
an employee let them inside and proceeded to lock the doors behind them according to Davis
as well as security footage released with the lawsuit the discussion inside the restaurant got
pretty heated with one manager filling a pitcher with scalding water to throw at the complaining
customers Davis and the miner immediately began running for the door the moment the water made
contact with their skin only to find the doors locked meanwhile the manager was busy feeling a
second pitcher of boiling water to throw at them the unidentified Miner reported Burns to the face
and chest following the incident while Davis experienced multiple seizures on her way to the
hospital and ultimately had to be admitted to a local ICU Burn Unit call 9-1-1 yeah I know I know
a lawsuit was settled against Taco Bell's parent company for one million dollars in
Damages and Taco Bell assured the public that they take the safety of customers very seriously
and that they were discussing the matter with the operator of the Dallas location
hacking contests because I'm hacking into the Mainframe if you love eating at Taco Bell then
you know that part of the fun is the occasional promotional contest they run for instance there's
the Taco Bell Vita contest where every five dollar box you purchase will get you not only a Cheesy
Gordita Crunch crunchy taco burrito supreme and medium drink but you'll also receive a
code that you can enter online for a chance to win a PlayStation Vita Taco Bell insisted that
prizes would be one at a rate of one winner every 15 minutes except those who received a message
claiming that they'd won wouldn't always receive their promised prize in which my love is the
prize when customers call them out for this Taco Bell responded with an apology and claimed that
the contest had been corrupted by hackers trying to gain the PlayStation Vita for themselves one
hacker who went by the online handle Sinister even claimed to have tricked Taco Bell into
sending him a game console Taco Bell apologized that they weren't able to honor the winners who
had received a corrupted message but did offer them another free chance to enter the contest